发明名称 |
Low-noise fiber-optic amplifier utilizing polarization adjustment |
摘要 |
A fiber-optic amplifier with reduced noise characteristics is provided. A polarization beam splitter/recombiner splits an input signal beam into two orthogonally polarized optical signals and recombines the separately treated signals. A phase controller compensates for optical path differences that result from dividing the input signal beam into two different paths. A wavelength division multiplexing coupler couples a pump laser beam with the input signal beam. A polarization maintained doped optical fiber amplifies the split optical signals while maintaining their original states of polarization. A linear polarizer rejects from each amplified split optical signal the noise with polarization orthogonal to the amplified signal. By suppressing such noise power, a portion of amplified spontaneous emission with polarization orthogonal to the signal is suppressed, thereby reducing the total output noise power.
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申请公布号 |
US5790721(A) |
申请公布日期 |
1998.08.04 |
申请号 |
US19950472973 |
申请日期 |
1995.06.07 |
申请人 |
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. |
发明人 |
LEE, SEUNG-HEE |
分类号 |
H01S3/067;H01S3/23;(IPC1-7):H01S3/00 |
主分类号 |
H01S3/067 |
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